By Sophie Austin
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, calif.>> California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to drastically cut reliance on fossil fuels by changing practices in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, but critics say it doe...
By Dino Grandoni
MONTREAL — Close to 200 countries reached a watershed agreement early Monday to stem the loss of nature worldwide, pledging to protect nearly a third of Earth’s land and oceans as a refuge for the planet’s remaining wild plants and animals by the end of the decade.
A room of blear...
By María Teresa Hernández
The Associated Press
RAPA NUI, Chile>> The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time.
Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai — the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Ra...
By Raymond Zhong
The New York Times
The official timeline of Earth’s history — from the oldest rocks to the dinosaurs to the rise of primates, from the Paleozoic to the Jurassic and all points before and since — soon could include the age of nuclear weapons, human-caused climate change and the pro...
By Judith Kohler
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Dan and Malia Fredrickson used the opportunity of a malfunctioning air conditioner to take a step toward electrifying their home by getting a heat pump, equipment that’s been around for a while but has gotten more attention l...
RON GARAN: When we see our planet from the perspective of space, certain things become undeniably clear. We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss, as standalone issues, when in reality, they're just symptoms of the underlying root problem. And the p...
The American West is currently the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, a new study found
By CONRAD SWANSON |
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: February 21, 2022 at 3:07 p.m.
Not only is the American West the driest it’s been in more than a...
Federal endangered species designation will heighten protection for surviving lesser prairie chickens
By BRUCE FINLEY |
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PUBLISHED: December 8, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: December 9, 2022 at 10:50 a.m.
Among America’s iconic native birds, the lesser prair...
The water crisis is intensifying, bringing supply issues, higher cost-of-living and impacts to tourism and agriculture
By CONRAD SWANSON |
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PUBLISHED: July 21, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2022 at 6:10 p.m.
With each passing decade the Colorado Ri...
BOULDER CO
By Amy Bounds
Daily Camera
Fourth-graders at Boulder’s Columbine Elementary have a lot to say about flood mitigation for Goose Creek, which runs through the neighborhood near the school.
They’re giving presentations this week after partnering with Growing Up Boulder, Classrooms for Cl...
By Judith Kohler
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Aiming to get mileage out of the increasing use of electric vehicles, the Colorado Energy Office is updating its plan to get more of them on the roads.
On Thursday, the agency unveiled a draft update with a goal of electrifying a bigger share of medium- and...
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We are proud to share the Colorado Latino Climate Justice Policy Handbook. This is the first of its kind: a bilingual informational guide about the status of the climate crisis in Colorado and the struggles that face the Latino community alongside it.
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By Gillian Flaccus
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, ORE.>> U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world whe...
By Kyle McCabe
Sky-Hi News
In June, the East Grand School District board approved the $193,860 purchase of a new activity bus. During that meeting, then-Superintendent Frank Reeves said one way to make the steep purchase (the district bought a bus for $129,690 in 2021) “more acceptable” would be t...
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
BALI,INDONESIA>> World leaders gathered Tuesday at a moment of severe geopolitical turmoil as the global economy slinks toward recession, weighed down by high inflation, a growing scarcity of food and the side-by side threats of oil sho...
By Daniel Victor
The New York Times
Until 1804, fewer than 1 billion people roamed our planet. More than a century later, in 1927, we crossed 2 billion.
Since then, the world population has shot up in the shape of a hockey stick, boosted by the triumphs of modern medicine and public health.
The ...
By Frank Jordans, Seth Borenstein and Kelvin Chan
The Associated Press
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT>>
U.S. climate envoy John Kerrymet Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at the annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt in a further hint of improving relations between the world’s top t...
COLORADO
Recycling rate lags; new laws could up participation
State diverted 16% of its municipal solid waste away from landfills during 2021
By John Aguilar
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Colorado’s anemic recycling rate is beginning to look a lot like the Denver Broncos’ last few seasons — a terribl...
By Becca Lawton
Writers on the Range
An old river-running motto says, “Old boaters never die, they just get a little dinghy.” And some never lose their passion for keeping rivers wild.
Consider California’s Stanislaus River. In the 1970s, people of all ages and abilities reveled in running its 13...
By Megan Rowling | Just Transition Editor
As the COP27 climate summit kicked off, U.N. boss António Guterres didn't mince his words. "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” he warned the 120 or so assembled world leaders.
And just in case they dared to think...
